Ah! One must take so much care to not be mainstream! Which obscure reference t-shirt? Which vintage hat? My dead great aunt’s jacket, or my dead grandpa’s jacket? What level of tightness in my skinny jeans for the day?

Let me put it this way. I don’t want to have to think of it, because on the one hand, it’d be gross to think that guys are dressing that way just to be hipsters. On the other hand, it’d be too much of a distraction and cannon fodder for unfortunate patterns of thought that have since run amok under their own steam.

All skinny pants do for a guy is show off how much of a wimp they are, that or malnourished.

He must REALLY look nasty in person because everyone seems so disgusted by him. It makes me wonder what Quinn saw in him in the first place.
Also, I am very excited to finally get into this conversation they are about to have. the curiosity is killing me!

Well, we know that Quinn was using him for money and car repairs so he was somewhat useful. As far as adult uses, I don’t want to know. And at least I’ve been told that this is a family webcomic. I was told that, wasn’t I?

But, I think that it’s not that Alex the Dirty Hippie is totally disgusting, it’s just that he either has some unknown unconscious repulsive force operating out of persona that becomes evident in either his manner of dress, college appearance, burrito stains, hair, facial hair, posture, facial expressions, skin pores, smell..

I mean, I shared a house with an art major once, and his room smelled of stale pekoe…. and he did not drink tea.

KK!!! yay!! And I’m glad that KK has somewhat of an opinion on the men in Ellie’s life. Perhaps that’s how we’ll see the blind dude come back. KK tells Ellie that he’s here, is a millionaire, and is offering her a job as personal secretary.

I like that Ellie’s finally gotten the “I don’t care about this job, but I have to expend juuuuuuuust enough effort to not get fired” expression down pat.

As for all of the commenters who have been asking if he’s really filthy enough to be mistaken for a hobo: He doesn’t have to be filthy if he’s walking up to a drive-through window. The McDonald’s in my town actually has (or at least used to have) a policy that pedestrians weren’t allowed to use the drive-through because too many homeless people were doing it. My dad (who drove an 18-wheeler that was too tall for the carport) did it anyway, at least when employees who were sufficiently uncaring were manning the window.